Planned purchases can be queued in the Quickbuy area. When you have enough gold for the queued item, a sound will play and you will be able to purchase it instantly by pressing your Quickbuy hotkey. This is very useful as players may not have time to safely navigate the shop menu while away from base.

Quick Buy items show a different border for items that the player can afford but aren't purchasable due to secret shop location or stock cooldown.

The Inventory consists of six slots on top, while the bottom three slots make up the Backpack.

The Inventory is where items are kept when the player buy it at the shop. Items can be freely moved between the player's inventory and the stash if their Hero is within the Main Shop's area, regardless of which team the shop belongs to.

Between the minimap and the inventory, the currently selected unit is displayed, along with its abilities and status. An animated portrait of the currently selected unit is visible to the right side of the minimap. The abilities of the unit are located at the center of his HUD element. The HUD shows the cooldown of the abilities and also shows when an ability cannot be cast due to insufficient mana. The health and mana are located right above the abilities. The empty space above the health bar is used to display modifiers the unit is affected by. A modifier with red borders is considered a debuff, and a modifier with green borders is considered a buff.

The stun bar is located above the health bar.

If the currently selected unit gets disabled, a message of the type of that disable will appears above his health bar, with an white bar showing how long the stun lasts. This white bar shows the duration of the longest lasting stun on the selected unit. It does not show stuns which last shorter than 0.5 seconds. It is not only limited to stuns either. It appears when the unit is hexed, slept or cycloned as well. It also appear when silenced, muted, disarmed, affected by break, rooted or taunted. It does not appear when the stun modifier is considered a buff (green borders) either. This means that for example Astral Imprisonment is not shown when cast on allies, but is shown when cast on enemies. It does not display aura-based disables. Only disables with a set duration are shown. This means it does not display Song of the Siren, Black Hole, Chronosphere and Meat Hook.

At the top of the screen, a list of all heroes in the game will be displayed, and their respective colors above. Left-clicking an ally hero's image will select that unit, replacing the entire bottom bar with information about their character (gold, experience, abilities, items, attributes, etc.) in the same locations as your hero. Double-clicking will bring the camera to the heroes current position. Left-clicking an enemy hero's image will not produce the same result. However, Alt-Left-clicking will report in team-chat that the hero is missing from their lane, and Ctrl-Alt-Left-clicking will report in team-chat that the hero has returned to their lane.

The hero list also shows the status of allied heroes' ultimate abilities, similar to the scoreboard. A diamond will appear at the bottom of the hero's icon when they learn the first level of their ultimate. A green diamond means the spell is ready, and blue means it is off cooldown, but the hero does not have enough mana to cast it. A grey diamond means the spell is on cooldown, and can be hovered over with the mouse to see the cooldown timer.

The Game Clock indicates the current Game Time, and whether it is night or day. When Dark Ascension is activated, the sun/moon inside of the clock is replaced with a small representation of Night Stalker's face, and the time of day turns to night.

The Guides window opens a list of user-submitted guides for your hero. Guides may suggest preset ability and item builds, which will be reflected in the rest of the interface. The list will show: Valve's Suggested Items list; any builds you have created; guides you have pinned in game or subscribed to on steamcommunity.com; and finally popular guides, in that order.

The Scoreboard provides information on all players in the game. It keeps track of each player's Kills, Deaths, and Assists, as well as their current gold, level, and ultimate availability for teammates. It will only display the enemy heroes level from when the players team last saw them and will not display current gold, or ultimate availability. A small button next to each player's name allows you to block text and voice communication from that player. Additionally, in the Ability Draft game mode, it will show each hero's abilities.

The Shared Unit Control panel allows you to share control of your hero and/or any summoned units with your teammates. Unchecking the Help option will prevent ally-targeted spells from being cast on you.

Showcase view allows you to manipulate the camera with greater freedom, while still being centered around the hero. It is useful for capturing movies or screenshots. Showcase view can only be used on friendly units.

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